Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Three (1709-28)

   In the Name of God Amen I Iohn Banks, York in the County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England being Sick in Body but of Sound mind and memory Do make this my Last Will and Testament this 22^d Day of December 1724.

   First & Above all I Commit my Immortall Spirit into the hands of God as A mercifull Creator & Father in Iesus Christ my Dear and Only Redeemer, & my Body I Commit to the Dust Decently to be Buried in hopes of a Glorious Resurrection And then as to the worldly Estate that the Lord has mercifully Given me, after my Iust Debts & funerall Charges are Paid I Dispose of it in manner following

   Imprimis. I Give unto my wife my Dwelling house and house hold Goods to be wholly at her Dispose.

   Item I Give unto my two Sons Moses & Aaron Banks all my Lands Homestead & out Lands together with my whole Stock to be Equally Divided betwixt them they Paying to their Sisters as expressed in the next Article.

   Item I Give & Bequeath unto my three Daughters Elisabeth Mary & Hannah thirty Pounds that is to say Ten Pounds to Each one of the three to be paid by my two sons out of the Estate hereby Bequeathed unto them the time of Payment to be on Demand.

   Finally I make and Constitute my two Sons before named the Sole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.

Signed Sealed Published    Pronounced & Declared to be    the Last Will and Testament    of the abovesd Iohn Banks    by himself in Presence of    Samuel Moodey    Joseph Preble    Stephen X Preble          his mark		John Banks (Seal)
Probated 8 April 1726. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 277, citing Probate Office, 3, 200.